Confoundit:[www.teegeniuses.com image 382x204]"Let me tell you something else. I've seen a lot of spinals, Dude, and this guy is a fake. A farking goldbricker. This guy farking walks. I've never been more certain of anything in my life!"

Did anyone overhear this exchange? I mean it sounds exactly like the final test I had to perform when I took that Faith Healing course. Was he saying "Through the power of Jesus I command thee to walk" as he struck the boy repeatedly? That's how it is supposed to work.

I don't think society is producing anyone with the necessary temperament to be a police officer in the way that we regard them traditionally. The modern personality does not seem to have the qualities of restraint and self-control. I think those days of growing up and being mature are just gone. Now everybody's a four year old forever.

Sunidesus:Every wheelchair-using person I've known over the years considers their chair to be basically an extension of their body. So if you wouldn't touch the person, you shouldn't be touching their chair.

Pushing the kid's chair without permission is a whole 'nother level of stupid.

I get the distinct impression that security guard would have pushed a regular kid, too.

Lsherm:Sunidesus: Every wheelchair-using person I've known over the years considers their chair to be basically an extension of their body. So if you wouldn't touch the person, you shouldn't be touching their chair.

Pushing the kid's chair without permission is a whole 'nother level of stupid.

I get the distinct impression that security guard would have pushed a regular kid, too.

Agreed. I think it may have taken him a smidge longer to get there, but he still would have done it.

1) have cerebral palsy that confines you to a wheel chair2) give attitude to mall ninja cop when he tells you to hurry up and get to class3) spit in his face when he literally rolls you down the hall against your will4) take a minor beating5) sue school6) profit

noitsnot:I don't think society is producing anyone with the necessary temperament to be a police officer in the way that we regard them traditionally. The modern personality does not seem to have the qualities of restraint and self-control. I think those days of growing up and being mature are just gone. Now everybody's a four year old forever.

or, you know, it is like maybe those guys just don't ever make it into the news, because they do their job calmly and with no issue.

No, I like your idea that every single person in today's society is immature and lacks any sort of impulse control. That makes more sense.

thegarthok:namegoeshere: Mitchell ordered the student to move toward his next class, but the student "either refused to comply or was slow to do so," Principal Matin Abdel-Qawi wrote in a letter to parents.

So the child with CP who is in a wheel chair was moving slowly?

I for one am SHOCKED! Should've tazed the little shiat. How dare he be all handicapped like that!

Skipped the part where the kid spit in the guard's face. In my opinion they should both face assault charges.

That came after the guard shoved him in his chair for moving too slowly. Which is beyond dickish and should not ever be done (unless the chair is stuck on the tracks and a train is coming, that sort of thing.) People with CP have much trouble speaking clearly which can be extremely frustrating when you are trying to explain why you are not the fastest thing on wheels or tell Bubba Rentacop to get his nasty hands off you. So being unable to successfully protest verbally, he tried to remove the jerk's hands, and he was then handcuffed and pushed around. No, he should not have spit. That's nasty. But I understand. The escalation leading to the spitting and the assault was due to very poor decisions on the part of the power tripping cop wannabe.

Reading the account, there is almost zero doubt in my mind that the kid was axcting like a little shiat. That being said, a calmer and more measured response was probably a better option. I have zero doubt, though, that the kid was dilly dallying, and spitting in the guards face was pretty much unacceptable and completely worthy of punishment. Not a beat down, though.

Randal Graves: About how he's got too much free time and no life. A guy in a wheelchair who's always preying on other people's sympathies, writing these long diatribes about how he'll never walk again, and how walkers should appreciate the blessings of their functioning legs, so I've been getting into it with him, throwing it right back in his stupid crippie-boy face about how I love to just sit around, and how I'd rather drive to the end of the block than walk!

namegoeshere:thegarthok: namegoeshere: Mitchell ordered the student to move toward his next class, but the student "either refused to comply or was slow to do so," Principal Matin Abdel-Qawi wrote in a letter to parents.

So the child with CP who is in a wheel chair was moving slowly?

I for one am SHOCKED! Should've tazed the little shiat. How dare he be all handicapped like that!

Skipped the part where the kid spit in the guard's face. In my opinion they should both face assault charges.

That came after the guard shoved him in his chair for moving too slowly. Which is beyond dickish and should not ever be done (unless the chair is stuck on the tracks and a train is coming, that sort of thing.) People with CP have much trouble speaking clearly which can be extremely frustrating when you are trying to explain why you are not the fastest thing on wheels or tell Bubba Rentacop to get his nasty hands off you. So being unable to successfully protest verbally, he tried to remove the jerk's hands, and he was then handcuffed and pushed around. No, he should not have spit. That's nasty. But I understand. The escalation leading to the spitting and the assault was due to very poor decisions on the part of the power tripping cop wannabe.

I agree totally that this was 80% the guard's fault. BUT, spitting is assault in the majority of jurisdictions and charges should have been pressed. They should have very quickly then been dropped but he needs to understand that it IS assault.